Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day S1E1

Episodes

1. Jochen and Marion

2. Oma and Gregor

3. Franz and Ernst

4. Harald and Monika

5. Irmgard and Rolf

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Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

Comedy

Drama

Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran, dodging expectations by depicting social realities in West Germany from a critical—yet far from cynical—perspective. Over the course of five episodes, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.

Date: 10/29/1972

Rating: 7.6

Cast: Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla, Luise Ullrich, Werner Finck, Wolfried Lier, Irm Hermann, Kurt Raab, Wolfgang Schenck, Wolfgang Zerlett, Herb Andress, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Anita Bucher, Grigorios Karipidis, Renate Roland, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira

Gottfried John